potential of ruining reputations of everybody involved and for that side of the story, we're going to sacramento and to crisis communications expert roger salazar. roger is the managing director of mercury a public strategy firm. he was a spokesman for president clinton. roger, welcome inside "the war room." >> thanks for having me, jennifer. >> jennifer: you bet. i know you're here on skype. you're a crisis communications expert. you've dealt with a lot of scandals. just as a general matter, how serious is this one? >> i think it is about as serious as you can get. any time you're dealing with the c.i.a., military activities and terrorism, you know, it is high stakes enough as it is. you throw, you know, jealous lover and sex into the mix and obsessed fbi agent has all of the makings of a tv show. basically, the best laid plans here of mice and men get laid to waste by some of these actions. so i think -- the stakes are pretty high. you know. exactly how serious it is for them individually remains to be seen. you know there's no question i think that petraeus will have a tough time in his chose